AmphibiaWeb - Oreolalax omeimontis


Oreolalax omeimontis (Liu & Hu, 1960) Omei Toothed Toad	family: Megophryidae subfamily: Leptobrachiinae genus: Oreolalax

AmphibiaChina 中国两栖类.

Conservation Status (definitions)
IUCN Red List Status Account Endangered (EN)

CITES No CITES Listing

National Status Endangered

Regional Status None

View distribution map in BerkeleyMapper.

Description
Males are about 54mm long; females about 61mm long. Head board and flat; with a somewhat round snout; well-developed upper jaw teeth; thin, vertical pupils, hardly visible tympanums, and an interorbital dark-brown triangular mark. The dorsal surface is grayish brown, with oval shaped dark warts. Dark palm brown stripes also exist on all four legs. Heels do not touch each other. Round toe tips; narrow fringe; and rudimentary webbing. Ventral surface is yellowish, with hardly visible grayish scattered marks on abdominal area, light olive-color net-shaped marks proximal to the throat, and visible brown marks near the groins.

Males have inner vocal sacks beneath throat, dark nuptial pads on the inner side of upper forelimbs and two inner toes, and a pair of dark nuptial pads on the chest.

Eggs are milky white, and 32mm in diameter. The tadpoles are 88mm long, with about 31mm head-body length. Tadpoles have brownish yellow dorsal with no obvious large marks, light-colored tail, several labial papillae near the edge of mouth, but the two center upper labial papillae are missing. Labial tooth formula is often I : 5 - 5 / I : 5 - 5.

Distribution and Habitat

Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: China

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It resides nearby mountain creeks, in Sichuan (Emei, Hongya) only, where the sea level is from 1050 to 1800m.

Life History, Abundance, Activity, and Special Behaviors
Adults live on land, and are active in late April. They squat beneath rocks in the creek during the day and beneath rocks near the creek at night. The breeding season is in June. Females lay about 183 eggs in a circular patch. After breeding, they reside in dark, moist areas in the forest. Tadpoles are active during the summer along submerged rocks, looking for moss and detritus to eat.

Possible reasons for amphibian decline

General habitat alteration and loss

References

Fei, L. (1999). Atlas of Amphibians of China. Henan Publishing House of Science and Technology, Zhengzhou.

Fei, L. and Ye, C. (2001). The Colour Handbook of the Amphibians of Sichuan. Chinese Forestry Publishing House, Beijing.

IUCN, Conservation International, and NatureServe. 2004. Global Amphibian Assessment. <www.globalamphibians.org>. Accessed on 14 February 2005.

Originally submitted by: Cheng (Lily) Li (first posted 2000-02-09)
Edited by: Tate Tunstall (2005-04-21)

Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2005 Oreolalax omeimontis: Omei Toothed Toad <https://amphibiaweb.org/species/5312> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Apr 18, 2024.

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